Anxious to get their ideas to market, many entrepreneurs seek to raise funding through venture capital.

While this is an easier and faster way to get your business off the ground, outside funding does not always work to your best interest. Getting investors on board essentially limits your control over your business and hinders creative freedom. […]

A huge part of crowdfunding success is choosing the right model for your project. While all types of crowdfunding are based on the same principle of raising cash from the crowd, each of these models operates on different mechanisms that make them appropriate for specific projects.

There are a number of ways to raise funds for a startup, such as finding angel investors, taking out a loan, soliciting money from wealthy relatives and so on. But the most popular today is crowdfunding, a method of combining smaller investments from the public into a larger capital pool.